Dear all,

historically, https://prometheus.io/docs/ has been a reference.

The plan from early this year was to split docs into sections for
reference, human-readable, and tutorials, and then start filling out
the human-readable version.

Within Docs WG[1] we realized that we're blocking ourselves. We're
front-loading huge amounts of work which no one of us can
realistically perform in the site setup. On the content side, we carry
huge PRs which are always out of date and a pain to review - without a
public way to find and use them as they're targetting a branch
deploying to an obscure netlify instance, not prometheus.io.

At the same time, I strongly believe we're doing ourselves and the
wider community a disservice by optimizing for experts instead of new
and intermediate users.

As such, we would like to propose flipping it around: Optimize docs/
for new and intermediate users, and do reference at reasonable effort.
This also means that the people volunteering within Docs WG get to
work on what they care about most, and anyone who really wants the
reference can submit a PR to split it out from current HEAD into a
clean structure alongside the human-friendly version.

While I am the maintainer of docs/, I would like to get community
consensus on such a change.


By sheer coincidence, Dieter, CC'ed, has asked in the Storage WG[2]
call if it would be OK to start putting developer reference directly
into Git. The consensus in that call was "yes". We can always figure
out how to tie this into A Perfect Structure On The Website later.
Starting with a grand plan now and searching for *.md across all our
repos later is better than writing all the docs from scratch once
there's something perfect.

I think this is 100% uncontroversial, but as it came up in two calls
back-to-back I offered to tack this one onto the text above.


Thoughts?


Best,
Richard

[1] 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k7_Ya7j5HrIgxXghTCj-26CuwPyGdAbHS0uQf0Ir2tw/edit
[2] 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HWL-NIfog3_pFxUny0kAHeoxd0grnqhCBcHVPZN4y3Y/edit

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